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1822 June 18.
Economy etc. Rationale
III Rationale
Ch. 5. Legislative
1. In many, why
2. Executive Chief one, why
Ch 5 Legislative
Legislative many — why
1.
Supreme legislative operative
why in many, not
in one.
2 Moral aptitude
1. Inaptitude opposite to
appropriate moral aptitude
in the Supreme Constitutive
no adequately prompt
termination remedy to it
2
2. In one, security for
adequate attention none.
3
3. Published justification
(say rationale) none.
4 Intellectual
4. All comprehensive
evidence of facts serving
as grounds. of
operation none.
6
4. Debates none,
auditors, members of
Public Opinion
Tribunal, none. Reports
of debates none.
7 Electors inconvenience
5. Inconvenience of
Elector's attendance
maximized, if voting
were all at one place.
9
6. Perceptible effect of
each Electors vote too
small to pay for the
trouble.
8 Electors etc.
7. So great the importance
of the office, and the
power of the one
functionary — contest
violent enough to
produce civil war.
10 Moral aptitude Electors etc.
8. Time in office, if
long, would afford power
enough to make
it longer and longer, till
it became for life: if
short, Elections will be
proportionally frequent.
5 Intellectual aptitude
9. No assurance of all
comprehensive
information of the
particular interests of
all districts, or equal
supports given to
each.
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